Monthly Archives: June 2023

By Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific journalist, and Christina Persico, RNZ Pacific bulletin editor As Australian protesters gathered outside the Brisbane detention centre calling for the...

Local Democracy reporter Kim Meredith reflects on her observations from Auckland Council's two-day annual budget meeting last week. Following drawn out debate and Mayor...

By Gorethy Kenneth and Majorie Finkeo in Port Moresby The arrest of Papua New Guinea former prime minister Peter O’Neill yesterday was prompted by a...

RNZ News The RNZ board is meeting tonight to begin setting up an independent review on how pro-Russian sentiment was inserted into a number of...

PNG Post-Courier Former Papua New Guinea prime minister Peter O’Neill has been charged with three counts of giving false evidence in a national US$1.2 billion...

By Finau Fonua, RNZ Pacific journalist The West Papuan Council of Churches says New Zealand hostage pilot Phillip Mehrtens' life is in danger if negotiations...

RNZ News RNZ chief executive Paul Thompson says the New Zealand public has been let down after pro-Russian sentiment was added to a number of...

By Majeleen Yanei in Port Moresby Seventeen Papua New Guinean schoolgirls who were kidnapped, raped and held hostage by armed men in Bosavi, Hela, last...

RNZ Pacific Reports from Papua New Guinea say that 17 girls from a remote village have been held captive by a large group of armed...

RNZ News A Ukrainian man who complained about an RNZ story last year having Russian propaganda says his concerns are only now being noticed. It comes...

By John Mitchell in Suva Fiji got to celebrate World Oceans Day this week -- a day when our conscience gets the occasional prick on...

RNZ MEDIAWATCH: By Hayden Donnell, RNZ Mediawatch producer RNZ is investigating how online stories about the war in Ukraine, supplied by an international news agency, were...

By Blessen Tom, RNZ journalist A new production called Coolie: The Story of the Girmityas is shedding light on the lesser-known history of the Indian...

Jubi News The trial of three Papuan "free speech" students accused of treason has resumed at the Jayapura District Court this week. The defendants -- Yoseph...

By Finn Blackwell, RNZ News reporter and Jordan Dunn, RNZ intern Auckland councillors crossed swords, singling out one another and raising impassioned concerns on debt...

By Marjorie Finkeo in Port Moresby The Royal Papua New Guinea Constabulary "has a gap" in its accountability and governance in the organisation, warns Police...

RNZ Pacific Samoan Prime Minister Fiame Naomi Mataafa has urged her fellow Pacific leaders to stop paying lip service to regionalism and walk the talk...

By RNZ News reporters Felix Walton and Finn Blackwell Auckland Council ended its meeting yesterday without a decision on the annual budget. The long-debated budget will...

By Miriam Zarriga in Port Moresby The last time Papua New Guinea heard “there is a stranger in the House” was when two men walked...

RNZ Pacific French Polynesia's new President Moetai Brotherson is in Paris for wide-ranging talks with the French government and the organisers of the 2024 Paris...

By RNZ reporters and Rachael Nath of RNZ Pacific Fiji Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka was welcomed to the New Zealand Parliament yesterday while on his...

RNZ Pacific Community leaders around Panguna mine in the autonomous Papua New Guinea region of Bougainville want mining giant Rio Tinto to help out following...